Friday Links: Cowboys, Furries, and the Short-Fingered Vulgarian’s Micropenis

Jannis Varelas, “The Cowboy,” 2016 at Athen’s The Breeder.

Last week, Molly Rhinestones and I noticed a trend of cowboy art at The Armory Show. Apparently we missed this one, which was included in a round-up of works that performed well sales-wise. [artnet News]

More Facebook censorship drama: artist Ilma Gore has been banned after posting a drawing of Donald Trump with a micropenis. [Motherboard]

Speaking of body-shaming Trump, meet the Spy Magazine editors who started it all. He still sends them outlines of his hands (in gold Sharpie) to prove he isn’t a “short-fingered vulgarian”. [NPR]

A rare scroll of Edo-era Japanese gay shunga illustrations is going to auction next week in New York City at Bonham’s. If you want to procure some old-timey homoerotica, it’s expected to fetch between $35,000 and $45,0000. [Hyperallergic]

Speaking of auctions, a new report confesses that the global art market is in the midst of a serious “correction”, a.k.a. decline. New Yorkers needn’t worry as much though, the market here actually expanded by 4%, even as sales have plummeted in Europe and Asia. [POLITICO New York]

Crumbs, the new film from Addis Ababa-based Spanish director Miguel Llansó is being described as “the first ever Ethiopian Sci-Fi Feature Film”. It features a protagonist navigating a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by neo-Nazis and maybe aliens. [African Digital Art]

Somehow, Syrian refugees were housed in the same Vancouver hotel as a furry convention. The children were overjoyed. Did anyone explain what furries are all about to their parents? [The Independent]

This reminds us of the 2014 incident in Chicago that prompted headlines such as: Furries Evacuate Hotel After ‘Intentional’ Chlorine Gas Leak. [NY Post]

Nita Ambani, India’s wealthiest woman, is perhaps best known for her eccentric skyscraper private home that towers over Mumbai. Recently, she’s become a patron of the arts—sponsoring travelling exhibitions at The Met, The Art Institute of Chicago, and in Mumbai. Now she’s building a museum to host “blockbuster” shows as part of a convention center developed by her husband’s company. [The Wall Street Journal]

Attention bloggers: Curbed NY is hiring a full-time nights and weekends editor. [Curbed]

After 35 years on Toronto’s Queen West, Queen Video is shuttering its doors. I know it’s been a couple years now we’ve been calling “the end of an era” on the independent video store, but it’s still depressing for cinephiles whose tastes were shaped by clerks who’d point your way to a dusty out of print videotape. Even though Queen Video is still holding onto its Annex location — and yes, they are selling their library so get ready — the Queen location was considered the best. [blogTO]

Internet, honestly, is this the best Obama/Trudeau slash you can come up with? A GIF of Obama moving in to make out with Trudeau isn’t enough. This shipping needs a name. Like, Trubama. Or, Obamdeau. And let’s open up the genre possibilities for fanworks here: a BDSM AU that spins out of an intense meeting on the softwood lumber dispute. An anthropomorphic where Justin is a panda. (I have no clue what animal Obama could be.) Whatever! The possibilities are endless. We can’t let this fandom die! [@joetoenails]

As mosquito season nears in the US, everyone is freaking out about the zika virus. Well, almost everyone. Republican lawmakers have been dragging their feet in regards to releasing funding for prevention and treatment measures. This, despite the fact that Puerto Rico (population 3.5 million) may face over 100,000 cases this year. [The Washington Post]